ecstatic - Story 38397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the antique bookstore didn't usually excite him, but tonight it was different. David found a letter, tucked neatly between the pages of an old volume of poetry. He stared at it, a slow smile stretching across his face.

A jolt of pure joy coursed through him, making his skin prickle. He felt a desperate urge to *move*, to celebrate. He cleared his throat.

"I can't believe it!" he whispered, his voice catching slightly. He practically skipped out of the store, eager to be alone with his discovery.

Emotion: ecstatic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.16 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.15

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion ecstatic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 ecstatic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the ecstatic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the ecstatic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.588
`ecstatic`	0.560
`de`	0.559
`🤩`	0.548
`overjoyed`	0.547

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.678
`😞`	-0.500
`ness`	-0.405
`😔`	-0.368
`😥`	-0.359